This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th Southern African Conference on Artificial Intelligence Research, SACAIR 2024, held in Bloemfontein, South Africa, during December 2-6, 2024.

The 29 full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 101 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: algorithmic and Data Driven AI; socio-technical and human-centred AI (Information Systems); responsible and Ethical AI (Philosophy, Law and Humanities); symbolic AI and Knowledge Representation and Reasoning.